It is the best book ever written on the subject. There is nothing like it! — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation.” — Jerry DeWitt Copy Share Image
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed. — James Prescott Joule Copy Share Image
To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many… The light… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I believe that a triangle, if it could speak, would say that God is eminently triangular, and a circle that the divine… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“We are talking about a bet, remember, and Pascal wasn't claiming that his wager enjoyed anything but very long odds. Would you… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic… — Antony Hewish Copy Share Image
The significant contribution of empiricism was not the eradication of certainty, but the eradication of infallibility as a criterion of certainty. And… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is no god, and that's the simple truth. If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and the most superstitious of… — The Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“All cultures in human history have believed in God and an afterlife in eternity. There is an interesting story told about the… — Grant R. Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image